Month: January 2016

We are celebrating our achievements this year & looking forward to even a greater year! Check out the major milestones in 2015 across the Egypt Section & the major events below.

Happy New year, 2016!

January

LYC’15 was hosted by IEEE AAST Alex
Leading Your Career, Leading Your Society is a leading 3-day annual conference organized by IEEE AAST Alex SB; the conference has won two IEEE Darrel Chong Awards due to its rich technical and non-technical sessions and workshops given by prominent speakers and instructors.

Future City 2015 … Start of Registration Phase

IEEE Alex SB – EDM’15
Integrating Engineers by Management “∫Edm” is an initiative to integrate young engineers with adequate management knowledge in order to be more effective and efficient in their professional industrial or entrepreneurial work

∫Edm is a 3-day event that consists of several workshops that are given by business experienced speakers to develop the attendees’ business background and to teach them several business tactics that help them to have successful, one of a kind and profitable business. On Edm participants get to work in teams on some technical workshops to initiate and lead a successful start-up. This year, Edm’15 has added a 1-day pre-event just before Edm’s 3 days mainly to brainstorm with teams on applicable ideas for start-ups with the help of professional instructors.
Edm on its 4th episode has continued with the same vision focusing on how to train young engineers to bring these startups to life.
EDM’15 was held from January 28th till January 30th, 2015.

February

IEEE Egypt Section & Vodafone Egypt | The 4G Started with 1G
In the past 10 years the way that everybody communicates has just exploded, more and more date services and applications are moving to the cloud. Today, Communication enters our daily lives in so many different ways that it is very easy to overlook the multitude of its facets. The telephones in our hands, the radios and televisions in our living rooms, the computer terminals with access to the internet in our homes. IEEE Egypt Section in cooperation with Vodafone Egypt gladly announces this technical event in communication engineering “The 4G started with 1G”. For more info, check this link

IEEE MUSB – Line follower advanced

YP Egypt New Leaders Announcement

Future City …. Teams Training with Mentors “1st Phase in FC Journey”

March

National RC Race Competition was hosted by IEEE GUC

IEEE MUST – Skill Fest 15

INNOVEST was hosted by IEEE BUE

IEEE CUSB & IEEE GUC – Egyptian Student Branches Congress 2015 – Cairo, Egypt (ESBC)ESBC: Egypt Section students Branches Conference on the ( 12th , 13th and 14th of March,2015 ) The event was organized by IEEE CUSB and IEEE GUCSB together. The event was mainly held to connect all IEEE volunteers in from different student branches all over Egypt section, to share their experiences and do some activities.The event took part in three days; the first day was a Welcome party where all volunteers had the chance to meet Dr. Ahmed Darwish (Egypt section past-Chairman) , Engineer Khaled Mokhtar, Engineer Mohamed Amin and a list of other speakers. Check the event’s video

IEEE Young Professionals Egypt as Community Partner for Cairo Mini Maker Faire!

April

IEE Egypt Section Co-Organizer in Cairo NASA Space Apps CompetitionThe International Space Apps Challenge is a two-day hackathon where teams of technologists, scientists, designers, artists, educators, entrepreneurs, developers and students across the globe collaborate and engage with publicly available data to design innovative solutions for global challenges. This year it took place in Egypt. One of the biggest events Co-organized by the section is the Cairo Nasa Space Apps Competition. More than 200 Participants; 55 Teams; 40 Mentors; 15 Judges; 10 Sponsors and 50 Volunteers!

Upper Egypt in Action was hosted by IEEE Aswan

IEEE upper Egypt in Action is the first of its kind event in upper Egypt to link innovative graduation projects ideas to be incubated by companies in the capital Cairo, the starting point of small startups. Winning teams got the chance to participate in EED and and one of them won a special prize in EED competition.

IEEE Innovation Career Solutions was hosted by IEEE HTI’s

IEEE MUST – Zee-Festival with Nile University

IEEE MUSB – Innovation day 4It has been held in the faculty of Engineering, Minia University, for the past four years with changes from one year to another according to the leaders vision. Innovation day is an annual carefully chosen collection of activities targeting Engineering students and those who are interested in technology and new inventions, seeking to help students to enhance their abilities, knowledge and sense of innovation Visitors find the opportunity to watch new projects with new ideas and modern technologies, and interact with VIPs and company representatives. Some of the activities are The Project Fair, talks, Crazy Idea Competition for secondary school students also it may include some robotic competitions.

IEEE NU with NU : To Boldly Go: The Experience & Majesty of Space

On 29th of April, IEEE NUSB collaborated with NU entity in hosting the talk of NASA Astronaut: Dr. Mary Weber. Around 400 to 500 attendees were present to listen to Dr. Mary Weber’s talk at Nile University Campus

MIE 2015 … The Launching of the 10th Episode

May

IEEE RAS Egypt Section Chapter – Chapter of the Year Award

Career Insider 1.0 was hosted by IEEE Mansoura

EED 2015 … The launching of the projects’ registration

MIE 2015 … Deadline for Projects Registration

July

Celebrating our outstanding Student Branches and their Counselors:

IEEE AlexSB – Website Contest First Place (Region 8)

IEEE Alex SB – Just Graduated “JG’15Just Graduated is a 3-day extensive series of talks and workshops.The main theme of the event is to raise the students’ awareness of the challenges they may face after graduation and to prepare them to pass any of these challenges successfully. During the three days of Just Graduated, the attendees learn a lot of skills that they will frequently use in their career life such as acquiring interview skills, knowing how to professionally write a CV, methods of hunting a job and finally answering any inquiry they might have concerning their future career life. They also get to know how to hunt a job and the minimum qualifications that they should have before applying for any job. They can submit questions that they may have concerning their career life, How to start it , What obstacles they may face , And they will be all answered by a professional instructor. They learn the steps of writing a professional CV and how to highlight their strength points in it, as well. There is a workshop where they write a flawless CV. They also learn how to pass any interview even in multinational companies and they will know the HR basics needed in order to do so. In JG’15, There was a workshop where a real Interview simulation took place. Just Graduated’15 was held from July 18th till July 20th, 2015.

August

IEEE Egypt Section 2015 Elections

IEEE Egypt Section Awards In 2015

IEEE Egypt section has been a leader in its activities throughout the years and thus deserving to win multiple awards thanks to the hard work of the Student branches, counselors & Young Professionals. Check this link.

IEEE Tanta – Push Yourself 2015Push Yourself’15 was held at Agricultural Professions Syndicate on 25 and 27 August 2015 and was attended by approximately 200 attendees from different colleges and universities. There were about 40 competitors within 11 teams presenting their projects in MIU #7 finals in fields (civil engineering – CS – Robotics – Control Engineering – Renewable Energy – Biomedical Engineering – Chemical Engineering) judged by a panel of 12 judges including both technical and presentation judge. First three places were awarded and also best prototype and best presentation. It also has 14 sessions, activities and discussions which support the slogan “Inside…Out” like: The maze, The child who controls your life, Look deep inside,……etc with different 9 speakers. Statistics: Speakers: 9, Competitors: 40, Teams: 11, Projects: 11, Judges: 12, Winners: 3, Attendees: 200. Check the event Link

EED Preparations …
EED Team … Challenging the abnormal conditions and the time limitations before the EED. The EED team worked very hard to deliver the event in the best form possible.

EED 2015 … Visitors Registration web-portal is opened!

September

Choosing the Local IEEE Day-Egypt Section Ambassadors

EED, MIE, Future City eventDuring the annual EED event, around 71 projects participated in the EED competition, 17 projects participated in the Made In Egypt Competition and 10 projects participated in the Future City competition. From all the participating teams, Seven Teams won in the EED competition and as for the MIE and Future City competitions, three teams in each were awarded the winning awards. The winning teams were announced during the closing ceremony of the EED event and were honored with the awards in the different Engineering fields.

Statistics for the EED event:

EED Projects 71, MIE Projects 17, Future City Projects 10, Total number of exhibitors 348, Total number of Universities 27, Total number of Visitors 5000, Total number of Sponsors 7, Total number of Speakers 35, Total number of Group Visits 45, Workshops 7.

IEEE YPMP…A New Program is now Live!The new program’s main objective is to induce the project management as a lifestyle for school as well as university students. This would help all participating entities well as the community in professionally managing their life, study, volunteer work, team, program and business by the end. In addition, the program is to initiate a project management office that would help any program lead/ manager to manage all the duties needed for his system.

It was held at Cairo University Faculty of engineering. The first day was technical day, the second day was (ENTREPRENEURSHIP DAY”)and the third day was ( fruit day) which was a workshop day for all participants where they were divided into teams and asked to create an idea for a project useful for Vodafone. This was by the help of some Vodafone mentors.Check the event’s Link

IEEE AlexSB – Interact with Toady’s World ITW’15ITW is the biggest mega event organized by IEEE AlexSB. It aims at introducing the latest technologies in the world, highlighting them and enabling you to interact with them in an intensive three – day – series of sessions and seminars about such technologies.This year, ITW’15 has presented for the first time, along with the regular sessions, a series of advanced sessions for graduates with deeper technicalities. In addition to an exhibition by multinational corporations, where some of the latest innovations were shown and the attendees got the chance to interact with today’s world for real. ITW’15 was held from September 19th till September 21st, 2015.

October

2nd IEEE EMBS International Students Conference

Since 2013, EMBS Engineering in Medicine and Biomedical Section has organized a number of International Student Conferences (ISCs) all over the globe, including Canada, the United Kingdom, Egypt, Malaysia, and Chile.This year, the conference was held in Cairo University from 21-22nd October 2015. The conference aims to Provide undergraduate and postgraduate students with the opportunity to practice, first hand, the process of scientific research and publication; Boost leadership skills in students involved in the organization of the conference. For more information, check here

A Collaboration Between IEEE Egypt Section & Techne Summit

IEEE Egypt section is pleased to announce the recent collaboration with Techne Summit. Techne Summit’15 was held under a festive atmosphere at Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt from 24th – 25th of October 2015. Techne summit created a platform for emerging start-ups and technology leaders from all over the globe to cooperate, connect and deliver their innovative businesses throughout the 2-days event.

IEEE Egypt Section – Vodafone Graduate Program
As part of IEEE collaboration with Vodafone, IEEE Egypt Section announced that Vodafone Egypt is launching its elite graduate program – Discover, which is a highly distinguished fast track development program designed for future leading high potential fresh graduates. An event was hosted in the Vodafone premises on October 29th in Nosseir Halls – Smart Village from 10:00 am till 3:00 pm

IEEEXtreme 9.0 in co-operation with ITWorx “LCW – Learn Compete Win” and made “Code = Power” as the slogan for this year

This year, IEEEXtreme Egypt Section Ambassadors had a new idea. They made an event which is considered as organizing IEEEXtreme for all the egyptian teams in one place. They called this event: “LCW – Learn Compete Win” and made “Code = Power” as the slogan for this year. As a kind of collaboration, ITWORX has hosted LCW and provided competitors with needed meals and refreshments along the 24 hours of competition. ITWORX also guaranteed a very good internet connection with internet technical support during the 24 hours. Find more details , check here

IEEE Day – Egypt Section

. IEEE day Egypt Section Ambassadors and in cooperation with AAST Alex student branch announced that IEEE day 2015 to be held in Alexandria on the 9th October, 2015. For more info, check this link

MIE Meets the Industry TrendsThe objective of the event aiming to providing undergraduate students with an opportunity to connect with the real-world by bridging the gap between the academic track and the industrial track and to help undergraduate students to pick a graduation project’s idea that meets the Egyptian market needs. The speakers in the event were MIE industrial partners that represent different enterprises and companies from different fields in the market. Each Speaker shared a set of topics that are recommended to be used in the graduation projects.

MIE’11 Call for Volunteers

November

The new IEEE Egypt Section Board first announcement

MIE’11 … Are you ready!

For all seniors’16 who joined MIE competition season 11 with their graduation Projects which could be the next industrial Product, applicants picked any Industrial idea from MIE industrial partners or joined with their own idea to make a Prototype for a new product with the signature Made In Egypt.For more details about MIE industrial partners’ presentations and their areas of interests kindly follow the link

IEEE NU : ROV Competition Orientation Session

On the 2nd of November, IEEE NUSB hosted an orientation session on campus in order to announce the initiation of the team build for the ROV Competition. Eng. Mahmoud Abdelaziz (ROV Egypt Competition Representative) was invited to introduce the competition to the interested individuals and to explain the rules & regulations of the competition. Event Statistics: Around 30 students attended the orientation session

As a collaboration between IEEE Egypt Section and RiseUp Summit, IEEE members got a very special rate for ticket.
RiseUp Summit 2015 is the Middle East & Africa’s top entrepreneurship event. This year, ‪#‎RiseUp15‬ took a Quantum Leap! Find out more here

ICECS is the International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems that was held at Intercontinental Hotel Semiramis. IEEE CUSB organized the whole event under the supervision of Dr. Ahmed Khattab. It was a three days event held from the 7th till the 9th of December 2015.

All the IEEE CUSB volunteers were rewarded at the closing of the event for their great work.

IEEE BUE held Fast Forward event, which discussed one of the main problems youth are facing nowadays which is unemployment and how young youth can benefit from one of the most popular world trend that is self employment, and utilizing one of the best platforms for that which is YouTube.

The main aim was to “fast forward” the audience’s abilities to reach their dream jobs by thinking out of the box and using their creativity to reach that.

Successful Egyptians who pioneered in this field and have been able to present creative content came to event to share their experience.

IEEE Minia SB also held the annual “Line follower” competition on December 14th. The competition included two tracks according to the difficulty : A simple track and the advanced track. Participating teams could only join one of the tracks. The first three teams were awarded from each track for competing.